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Report says businesses should be penalised for food waste
News | 04 June 2013Businesses must take responsibility for food waste with clear sanctions for companies that fail to meet agreed targets On top of this consumers should buy meat only as an occasional treat to help protect future food supplies and keep prices down The International Development Committee urged the Government to redouble...More > -
Plans to boost women entrepreneurs unveiled
News | 04 June 2013The Women and Equalities Minister Maria Miller has unveiled a new programme to boost the role of women in driving forward the economy The plan includes moves to get more women into work into more senior positions and to drive entrepreneurship by providing better support for girls from school age...More > -
H&M promises to use "healthy models" in the future
News | 03 June 2013H M has said that it will only use healthy models for its advertising in the future admitting that it had made mistakes in the past and pledging a more diverse range of models in the future The announcement follows widespread rumours that Beyonce was furious at her recent campaign...More > -
Companies should be insured against collapse
News | 03 June 2013All limited companies should be made to take out insurance against going bust giving more protection to creditors a report has said Think tank Civitas has said the present system of shielding shareholders from being pursued encouraged excessive risk taking in the boardroom We should design a system in which...More > -
Fashion sales left out in the cold
News | 03 June 2013Fashion retailers suffered a fall in sales as the coldest spring for 50 years kept shoppers indoors according to a new report Clothing shops saw like for like sales fall 1 4 after a particularly poor final week in May the BDO High Street Sales Tracker revealed Despite wider high...More > -
Pensioners "will be hit" by Co-op Bank rescue plan
News | 03 June 2013Thousands of pensioners and investors face losing around 3 million a year under emergency rescue plans being drawn up for the crisis hit banking arm of the Co operative Group it has been reported The Co operative Group is considering slashing or axing income paid to junior debt holders as...More > -
Gala Coral to close pension scheme
News | 03 June 2013Bookmaker Gala Coral has become the latest UK firm to announce plans to axe its staff pension scheme The group which employs 18 000 staff has launched a two month consultation with workers over the move which will see its so called defined benefit pension replaced with a less generous...More > -
Government steps up back to work scheme
News | 31 May 2013The Government today unveiled an intensive and uncompromising regime aimed at targeting people on its back to work scheme A hit squad of specialist advisers will be based in jobcentres to deal with people not in a sustained job after spending two years on the Work Programme Under the plans...More > -
Cash "still used for majority of purchases"
News | 31 May 2013Cash is still used in the majority of purchases by the UKs shoppers but relatively new payment methods such as PayPal are rapidly gaining ground a report found today More than half 54 of transactions were made using cash last year according to a survey of nearly 10 billion payments...More > -
£27 million Mary Rose museum opens today
News | 31 May 2013The secrets of the Henry VIIIs warship Mary Rose will finally be on view to the public today when the pound 27 million museum housing the wreck opens to the public The Tudor vessel lay undiscovered for centuries until it was found by divers in 1971 It will go on...More >
